She was like so grateful that we convinced her to do it. Um so she sets incredibly high standards for the students in our classrooms. Uh she's a role model for our our staff in the building because of the rigor that she provides in our classroom because of the knowledge that she has of the curriculum. But she does all this while valuing the students and meeting their their needs and making them feel comfortable. And it's all honest and it's all it's all a a a level of comfort that engages the students. The students walk in there and they know that they're going to be expected to perform, but they also know that there's an instructor in there that cares very deeply about them. And we are so lucky to have Miss Donado. Uh two real quick things. When I first started in the building, one of the first people to kind of welcome me into the building was Mrs.
For always believing in me that I could graduate and never letting me give up. We faced challenges, overcome obstacles. We've learned not only from textbooks and lectures, but we've also learned from each other. The friendships we've made here, the lessons we've learned, and the experiences we have shared have only prepared us for the future ahead of us. As we step out into the world, the future is uncertain, but that's what makes it so exciting. So, let's embrace the unknown, pursue our passions, and make a positive impact on the world. I am so thankful that we all get to graduate with Miss Green. Congratulations, class of 2025. Those are some pretty brave students, aren't they? And they're wonderful. Let's give them another round of applause. So now the big moment. Joining me for the presentation of diplomas is Mr. Tom Todd. Mr. Todd will be reading the names of our graduates as diplomas are awarded tonight.
It really is a a very fun time with live music, bounce houses, a great meal, and and lots of fellowship. The event ensures that we will be able to honor Adam and support you through this scholarship for many years to come. I believe that this year's scholarship recipient has a lot of grit. I believe that agriculture needs this individual and more people like him. Most importantly, I believe that this recipient can make a difference, has a bright future, and can do great and important things for the agriculture community. I'm so glad we get to support him. I am happy and privileged to award the Adam Hulk Camp Memorial Scholarship to Caleb. [Music] Good morning. I'm Sarah Helmick and I'm here on behalf of the Greensburg United Methodist Church to award the Roland Curtis and Willow Marie Barnes Nursing Scholarship in the amount of $1,099 to Braden memory.
Is there any discussion? All right, we'll take it to a vote. Mr. Phillips, I. Mr. Poa, I. And I vote I. The next item I recommend to the board that they approve the recommendation to award Mrs. Flanigan a one-time supplemental payment of $10,000 for accepting additional leadership duties at Edison Junior Senior High School. We've heard the recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make the motion. I'll second the motion.
Okay, thank you very much. So, uh, Brandy and I met uh last week, I believe, and um looked at um submissions. So, I I think the there are two different avenues for grants. One is for um groups, organizations that are 501c3s and um so those are nonprofit organizations and then um there is a grant process for community organizations and the the um the money for these grants, the um the 501c3 money comes from uh what the BAA, the runners that we have running on behalf of the community raise. And so that money then allows us to um to really support organizations in town that are doing good work here. Uh so and then the community grants come from um rentals and what other things it's it's the Warren Conference Center. The Warren Conference Center. It's fees in lie of um I think it's in lie of tax that we receive from them.
Addy goes through one, two. She gets hit and Addy will get herself an eight meter. Addie Jordan on the 8 meter. She goes in off the post. Ball goes rolling all the way back. Kylie Marino's there to chase it down. Knocks the ball up. Kylie seeing space. That looked like a dangerous. That should be a yellow card. No, it just runs non-stop though. Yeah. or she did. Yeah. So, Awam Awam's doer gets a yellow card. She'll be in the box for two minutes. Kylie Marino gets the ball over to Mckne. Looking for somebody. Gets the ball to Marino. Marino back to McKnney. Mcknney feathers in to Calibies. Calibries does a little dodge. We sneaks one past the goalie. Good work by Calibies. Always so shifty behind in front of the net. Calib gets her second goal of the quarter. Spartans up 12 to one with five minutes to go.
Uh the high school now moving to 7:30 uh to make it a formal 6-h hour and 55minut day in alignment with the contract in alignment with the two other schools. We do need to end at 2:15 to have that 6 hour and 55minut day. Um we had talked a great deal about shaving um passing time off with the committee and we were able to actually operationalize that. Mark Mark was ready to do that um to have us end at 210. Um but the teachers union came back with some concerns and I see some smirking from some of our teachers over there as to how this works. So we have to be even Steven across the district and it's understandable. So we want to be in alignment with contract and not even be off by a couple of minutes. So um in talking with Mr. Baldwin, he said he definitely can make that work and I know the committee knows that that 210 was the absolute ideal latest, but he did say even even if we went as late as 220, he might be able to pull things off.
on a regular basis. Um but it is it is now um we are up to date as of um April. We didn't we didn't post March yet. So these numbers are um reflecting the actuals through uh through the end of April. When you say actuals, is that a net or a net? A net that is net of the the employee contribution that's that's taken out or is it the actual expenditure for the the claims? Yeah, I I think if what you're asking is this this gross or a net number? The 4.4 is um is largely driven by the fact that the the gross number is what's being budgeted. um but the the actuals that are being charged um are not that it doesn't include that employee portion which causes a favorable variance at the end of the year. So when does that correction get made?
So there there is a process. It's not like somebody files something against you and you're out of the whole thing and you wait. That's not that's not how it works. It is a a legal proceeding. Um but just to go through some one of these um and just so you you see what what it kind of what how to read them. They are linked um excuse me they are linked so that you can go in and read the full case. Now the the ethics complaints are not necessarily scrubbed of identifying information. um the the advisory opinions are because that should pertain if anybody has a similar issue. Um they they can look that up and see how they think the the the commission would would um go would uh rule on that. Um so in in C24 the second one um they a board members was um involved in the ongoing efforts of an HIV and code of conduct complaint about her child uh and it was on her child's record and she wanted it um reversed.
Donado Jennings. um you know trying to get me to engage with the with the staff and participate. I was a substitute. I kind of didn't know anyone. So um she was she kind of you know welcomed me in. Uh the second thing is she's probably the best secret Santa in the building. She had me going she had me going all all uh all like all December trying to figure out who this person is. She she's right on the nose. So Mr. Data Jennings, thank you for all you do for our students. Thank you for what you do for your peers in the building and thank you for your commitment to cliff park. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. And our our last uh recipient of this award is not a teacher, but she is someone very special to our district. She is a speech pathologist.
So, it is my pleasure to announce that the MCAD High School seniors who sit before you have met all the requirements set by the Morirana Unified School District to participate in this graduation ceremony. It's my privilege to ask the seniors to come forward to accept all of the honors which they have earned as graduates. [Applause] Well, be before we get started, folks, I just want to say that according to my wife and a handful of kids, um I look like Doug from the Liberty insurance. So, if anybody has an emu for sale, I'm looking for a new gig. [Applause] Serena Rose [Applause] Ayia, Josephine Katherine Amos, Luis Jose Bazerto, [Applause] Lacy Leanne Bice, [Applause] Kylie Renee Bingham, [Applause] Tristan Jeremy Boland, [Applause] Jade Lynn Booth, [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Johnny Joseph Bosler, [Applause] Briana Marie Brock, [Applause] [Music] Unique Marie Canchola Salazar, [Applause] Trevor James Condit, [Music] [Applause] Sam Cook Elliott, [Applause] Zarya, Naima, Cordova, [Applause] Preston Anthony Daly, [Applause] Miranda [Applause] Daniels, Andrea Crystal, Davila [Applause] How are you, Mama?
Uh, good morning everybody and congratulations to the graduating class of 2025. My name is Ethan Eldridge and I'm very excited to be here today on behalf of my family and the scholarship board to award uh this year's Christa Eldridge uh memorial scholarship to one of you graduating seniors here today. Um for those of you who don't know uh my mom Christa was uh actually a student at North Gator High School uh just down the road. She uh was a very diligent student. She was a dedicated athlete uh and she was very passionate about her involvement in her local uh 4 club here in Greensburg. Um a short time um after uh her and my dad um started dating they uh ended up going to university uh together to um study social work. She ended up studying social work there and went on to get her master's degree at the University of uh Pittsburgh in social work uh where she hope to one day come back to Greensburg and become a family therapist and hopefully coach basketball or volleyball uh at one day.
Any discussion? I just want to thank Mrs. Flanigan for taking on the extra responsibilities and giving so much care to our students here. Thank you. I would like to echo that as we were just saying, we appreciate everything you did and this is how we want to make sure we show it. So, um, thank you again for everything. Any other discussion? All right, we'll take it to a vote. Mr. Bips, I. Mr. Poruska, I. And I vote I. I'd like to recommend this evening to the board that they approve to hire Eric Reese as dean of students at Edison Junior Senior High School effective for the 2025 2026 school year. We've heard the recommendation. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion. I'll second.
So we so for folks that are staying overnight, we get right the rentals up there. Okay. Um so anyways, just um we had a total of 33 grant applications um and they were eight from that were applied as community grant and 25 as the nonprofit um grants. Um okay. We are recommending that in community dollars we award $5,138.99 and in the 501c3 we recommend we award $63,179.80. Um so that would leave our just our current balances in community dollars. We would still have $53,54168 and that's as of today. um and $70,000 67 $70,67484 um in the 501c3 account. Um just to really talk a little bit about some of the the grants that we gave um or are giving the um the business Ashlin business association. So, these are community grants and they are looking to uh fund the funds to be used for hosting events that bring residents and business owners to town.
[Music] Kylie Marino on the draw. Haven't had a lefty on a draw since Alli Thompson last year. Lone lefty last year. Kylie Marino the lone lefty this year. Ball goes up. Addie Jordan gets over there to knock it away. Ken Marino there to pick it up. Fires it to M. Whiter. M Whitw. Nice grab by Kylie Marino. Nice fake by Wow, that's a nice play. Nice fake by Kennar Marino. Gets the ball over to Jane Pellier. Jane Pellier, good luck. Awam goalie with Jane Pelliter firing it away 7 ft away from you. You're not going to have much of a chance to save that. Nice shot by Jane. It's Jane's second goal of the season. She scored another goal and against Awam in Awam. We'll take requests. Marino on the draw. Ball goes up. Awam comes away with it. They quickly try to feather it up.
So, um, we still can make everything work. The board did vote on the start times, not on the end times. So, there's no formal action that needs to be taken and we'll get that communication out to everybody under climate and engagement. Um just want to uh give a shout out to a couple of our um wonderful eighth grade and uh uh senior students from BHS in the middle school. On Monday afternoon, the entire region we celebrated the Western Connecticut Superintendent um Association had its regional leadership award ceremony at the Amber Room and from BHS Tagen George and Jenna Connect were honored and from the middle school Lily uh Alag and Mackenzie Lynch were honored. So, it was a beautiful um event and uh also um uh was it gosh we had our representation for uh the national uh anthem as well. So, it was really great.
Uh so for this year for fiscal 25 um I'm requesting the ability to reclass that amount because it looks like although the the total amount of the budget of 160 um might have been a good number it just looks like it was incorrectly budgeted disproportionately into benefits. So in 26 we're not going to repeat that mistake. We're going to we're going to take in account the rebates as well as the employee withhold. to bring that budgeted number down and there'll be um that amount will be offset in in the other buckets. Okay. So with regard to the budgeting in the future, my comment would be the same as as I had with the with the rebate that in the insurance lines the health insurance and you can broadly do it. I don't care about dental or or the other, but you have the actual expenditure which is a an expenditure a debit call that then have another placeholder in there for an anticipated amount that would be the the reimbursement.
Um she called the superintendent, the board uh individual board members and the board attorney to further her personal agenda. Um and because this is the the school ethics commission rule that the action is not related to her her duties um and reversal and the reversal directive um is actually asking for them to you're she's trying to administer or you know run the schools. uh and the the action um and by reaching out to other board members to the board attorney is something that is not available to to your general public. Uh they they can't do that. They can't call the board attorney at will. Um but they found that um this this board member was in violation of three tenants. C which you see on on on you can't really see on the bottom. C D and E. C is pol you're confining your action to policym you D is you won't administer the schools and E is that authority rests with the board.
Right. I I I got it. Miss Haney right. Miss Megan Haney, please come. I got it right. I'm so proud of you, Miss Hal. You did it. Congratulations. I'm glad you said uh that before me. Yeah. Um Miss Haney is um sorry, education specialist throughout the entire district. Um we are so lucky to have her as part of our middle school family. Um but what a lot of people don't know is that her job entails a lot more than just the middle school. She works with elementary school students, middle school students, high school students, and this position forces you to be flexible. Um, at the beginning of every school year, um, Miss Zane comes to me with her case load and she like a little, you know, game of Tetris kind of fits this student into this day at this time in this location. And every couple days, I always check in.
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